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Hurricane Opal was a large and powerful tropical cyclone that caused severe and extensive damage along the northern Gulf Coast of the United States in October 1995.
At landfall, Opal was a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. Opal rapidly weakened after moving inland and was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved across southern Alabama.
It’s been 25 years since Hurricane Opal made landfall along the Florida Panhandle as a Category 3 storm packing top sustained winds of 115 mph. The storm wreaked havoc along Northwest Florida and...
20th Anniversary of Hurricane Opal. On the afternoon of October 4, 1995, Hurricane Opal slammed into the Florida Panhandle. After days of idling in the southern Gulf of Mexico, Opal had suddenly sprinted northward and intensified causing panic along the coast.
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WMBB) — Hurricane Opal smashed into the Panhandle and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses and upended thousands of lives.
category two/three hurricane near Pensacola around noon. Accelerating quickly to the northeast, Opal became extratropical on the 5th as it entered the Ohio Valley.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. — Hurricane Opal lashed the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday like a steel whip, killing one person and sending 100,000 others into headlong flight from the worst blow since a storm...
Weather Underground provides tracking maps, 5-day forecasts, computer models, satellite imagery and detailed storm statistics for tracking and forecasting Major Hurricane Opal Tracker.
A scenario for disaster - that nearly became a reality in Hurricane Opal of 1995 - is a category 2 hurricane that strengthens to a category 5 overnight.